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Connecting inspiration PHOTO: JUHA RAHkONEN he world's leading mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is sharing its unused research and development with companies across Finland for free. The goal T is to share ideas for everyone's benefit and help Finnish businesses to become more competitive internationally. Four new start-ups have already been created through the Innovation mill including Sports Tracking Technologies, which develops applications based on the extremely popular Nokia Sports Tracker application. millions of mobile phone users have downloaded the program worldwide. WWW.NOkIA.COm Eyes on the prize I n June 2010, the winner of the world's largest technology prize, The millennium Technology Prize, will be announced. Worth EUR 1 million and awarded to a technological innovation that improves the quality of life, the Finnish-funded prize is awarded every two years. WWW.mILLENNIUmPRIzE.FI T he new animated movie Moomins and the Comet Chase is to be the first Nordic stereoscopic 3D film. Finnish Filmkompaniet Alpha produces the movie. Icelandic pop star Björk has composed and performs the theme: `The Comet Song'. Moomins and the Comet Chase is based on Tove Jansson's classic book Comet in Moominland. WWW.FILmkOmPANIET.FI 3D Moomin goes aunched at the prestigious milan Furniture Fair, the 10-Unit System is a modular furniture range that forms a chair, table or bench. Designed by Japanese architect Shigeru Ban in co-operation with leading Finnish design house Artek, the new system is made from recycled paper and plastic manufactured by UPm, one of the world's leading forest industry groups. WWW.UPm-kYmmENE.COm WWW.ARTEk.FI L Finland in Figures COOkIE CUTTER DESIgN BY HEIROL OY Clean design WWW.STAT.FI Sovereign parliamentary republic since 1917. · The president is elected every six years. The position is held by Tarja Halonen. · Member of the European Union since 1995. · Currency: euro. · gDP 2008: EUR 185 billion. · Population: 5.3 million. · Capital: Helsinki. One million people live in the Helsinki region. · Languages: 91% speak Finnish, 5.4% speak Swedish. · Religion: 81% Lutheran, 1% Orthodox. · Area: 390, 920 square kilometres or 150,900 square miles, of which 9% is fresh water. · There are 188,000 lakes in Finland. 39
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